Robert Campbell MacKenzie

Colonel Sir Robert Campbell MacKenzie KBE CB (12 January 1856 - 26 May 1945) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He also served in the British Army.[1]

Robert MacKenzie
Birth nameRobert Campbell MacKenzie
Date of birth(1856-01-12)12 January 1856
Place of birthGlasgow, Scotland
Date of death26 May 1945(1945-05-26) (aged 89)
Place of deathDuntocher, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Glasgow Academicals ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1877
1878-79
1878
Glasgow District
West of Scotland District
Blues Trial
()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1877-81 Scotland 4 (2 gls, 3 tries)
45th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office
1924–1925
Preceded byRobert Neilson
Succeeded byRobin Welsh

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Glasgow Academicals.[2]

Provincial career

He played for Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in December 1877.

He played for West of Scotland District against East of Scotland District in February 1878; and in March 1879.[3]

MacKenzie played for the Blues Trial side in February 1878.[4]

International career

He was capped four times for Scotland between 1877 and 1881, scoring two goals (conversions), three tries, and two drop goals.[5]

Administrative career

He was President of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1924 to 1925.[6]

Military career

He was a commander of the Highland Light Infantry.

Outside of rugby and military

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1911. Following the first World War, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 Birthday Honours.[7]

He died, aged 89, in Duntocher, Dumbartonshire in 1945.

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